Spring 2012 - University of California Press

Music / cinema
Susan McClary
Desire and Pleasure in
Seventeenth Century
Music
Susan McClary examines the mechanisms
through which seventeenth-century musicians
simulated extreme affective states—
desire, divine rapture, and ecstatic pleasure
—and demonstrates how every major genre
of the period, from opera to religious music
to instrumental pieces based on dances,
was part of this striving for heightened
passions.
Susan McClary is Professor of Music at Case
Western Reserve University.
FEBRUARY
352 pages, 6 x 9", 75 music examples
Classical Music
World
cloth 978-0-520-24734-5 $60.00tx/£41.95
Jacob Smith
The Thrill Makers
Celebrity, Masculinity, and
Stunt Performance
In The Thrill Makers, Jacob Smith explains
how working-class stunt performers helped
shape definitions of American manhood
and pioneered a form of modern media
celebrity that now occupies an increasingly
prominent place in our contemporary popular
culture.
Jacob Smith is the author of Vocal Tracks:
Performance and Sound Media and Spoken Word:
Postwar American Phonograph Cultures, both from
UC Press.
MAY
280 pages, 6 x 9”, 21 b/w photographs
Cinema Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-27088-6 $70.00tx/£48.95
paper 978-0-520-27089-3 $29.95tx/£19.95
Mauro Calcagno
From Madrigal to Opera
Monteverdi’s Staging of the Self
Covering more than a century of music and
cultural history, this study explores the
works of Claudio Monteverdi to investigate
how his music reflects changing ideas about
performance and role-playing by singers.
Mauro Calcagno is Associate Professor of Music
at SUNY, Stony Brook.
An Ahmanson Foundation Book in the Humanities
MARCH
328 pages, 6 x 9”, 10 b/w photographs,
4 line illustrations, 6 tables, 20 music examples
Classical Music/Opera
World
cloth 978-0-520-26768-8 $60.00tx/£41.95
Siegfried Kracauer
Siegfried Kracauer’s
American Writings
Essays on Film and Popular Culture
Edited by Johannes von Moltke and Kristy
Rawson, with an afterword by Martin Jay
Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966), friend
and colleague of Walter Benjamin and
Theodor Adorno, was one of the most
influential film critics of the mid-twentieth
century. These essays provide a unique perspective
on this eminent émigré and illuminate
post-war cinema and culture.
Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966) was a member
of the Frankfurt School and is considered one of
the great film critics of the 20th century.
Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, 45
JUNE
288 pages, 6 x 9”
Cinema Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-27182-1 $70.00tx/£48.95
paper 978-0-520-27183-8 $29.95tx/£19.95
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